Poetry for Children

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Poetry for Children by Kelly Witkowski Forms of Poetry Major Works Major Poets Classics of Children's Poetry A Poetry Reading by Shel Silverstein Free Verse Limericks Lyric Poems Narrative Poems Rhythm and Rhyme Sound Patterns Figurative Language Characteristics of Poetry Rhythm: the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line that gives poetry its beat or tempo

Rhyme: two or more words with the same ending sounds but different beginning sounds Figurative Language: creates imagery in the mind of the reader Alliteration: repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring wordsex: Jill drank juice joyously. Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds within wordsex: Shawn the frog made saucy dogs. tells a storyusually has setting, characters, events, and a climaxgenerally are longer poemsoften use the rhyming scheme ABCB Humorous five-line verses with a rhyming scheme of AABBA. Lines follow a syllable count of 8, 8, 6, 6, 8. focus on a single experiencedescribes the feeling of a momentmany different stanza forms used can be rhymed or unrhymedhas irregular rhythmic patterns and line lengthsaims to recreate the free rhythms of natural speech Langston HughesShel SilversteinMaya AngelouEdgar Allan PoeRobert FrostEmily DickinsonElizabeth Barrett BrowningE. E. CummingsWalt WhitmanWilliam WordsworthSylvia PlathJack PrelutskyWilliam Butler YeatsThomas Hardy Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" (1842)Clement C. Moore's "The Night Before Christmas" (1849)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride" (1863Kate Greenaway's "Under the Window" (1879)Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses" (1885)Alfred Noyes' "The Highwayman" (1906)A. A. Milne's "When We Were Very Young" (1924) and "Now We Are Six" (1927) Simile: comparison of two things that are unlike using the words 'like' or 'as'ex: Elizabeth is graceful like a swan.Metaphor: comparison that is implied through analogyex: Elizabeth's eyes are glowing embers.Personification: the representation of animals, ideas, and things as having human qualitiesex: The words of her poem leaped off the page. Ex: Excerpt from "The Night Before Christmas" by Clement C. Moore 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring,not even a mouse.

The stockings were hungby the chimney with care,In hopes that St. Nicholassoon would be there. There was an old man from PeruWho dreamed he was eating his shoe.He awoke in the nightIn a terrible frightAnd found it was perfectly true! Concrete Poems Words are arranged to form a pictorial representation of the subject. They are not written in stanzas, and they may or may not rhyme. Ex: "I Heard a Bird Sing" by Oliver Herford

I heard a bird singIn the dark of DecemberA magical thingAnd sweet to remember:"We are nearer to SpringThan we were in September,"I heard a bird singIn the dark of December. Ex: "April Rain Song" by Langston Hughes

Let the rain kiss you.Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.The rain makes running pools in the gutter.The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night--And I love the rain. Haiku consists of seventeen syllables arranged in lines of five, seven, and five syllablessubject is usually something in nature The full moon's bright light,Casting shadows in the snowLike the noonday sun. Source: Anderson, Nancy. (2006). Elementary Children’s Literature. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Corporation. Image Source: http://bookmineset.blogspot.com/2007/09/poetry-friday-writers-diary-35.html